On 9/20/10 10:59 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 21/09/10 04:18, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> ... or did we just forget to remove it?
>
> Backwards-compatibility? ;-) There hasn't been any pressing reason to
> remove it.
Any application which needed it (like OpenACS) just got broken when we
removed add_missing_from. Let alone the typecasting changes in 8.3.
Personally, I find removing GUCS to be a worthwhile goal in itself. We
have well over 200 now.
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